Weekly Participation- Jessica Creager

For this weeks interview we discussed the concept of the nuclear family. I asked my interviewee whether she experienced this ideal while growing up. For her, her parents divorced when she was very young. Her mother wanted to make a clean break from the relationship, therefore handling all finances on her own. As a single mother, her mother worked a full time job as well as took care of the children for about 80 percent of the time. She would see her father, but she felt that he did not put that much effort into being a father although he worked at home and made more money than the mother. I asked my interviewee if she were to marry and have children, would it resemble the nuclear family ideal. She stated that she would expect both herself and her husband to work outside of the home. Also, she stated that she would marry someone who enjoyed or wouldn't mind doing housework, and that she believed the work at home should be equal.